Heights Arts’ “WeToo” Concert Features Four Pieces by Women Composers at Dunham Tavern

Mari Sato

Sun 11/24 @ 3PM

It seems like classical music presenters have woken up to the fact that there are plenty of women who have written pieces worth performing — a far cry from the day when only men were allowed even play the music in symphony orchestras. The Akron Symphony is programming women’s composers under the name “Stand My Her.” And Heights Arts is presenting another “WeToo” concert, Four First Ladies in Classical Music.

It features four compositions three of them string quartets, written by the first woman who performed for Abraham Lincoln, the Venezuelan Teresa Carreno; the first women to play in a major symphony in 1912 violist Rebecca Clark Comodo; and the first female composer-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music Margaret Brouwer (at 79 still actively composing and working in northeast Ohio with her Blue Streak Ensemble). The program concludes with a new clarinet quintet composed by Anna Weesner, recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Violinist Mari Sato leads the program which features her fellow Cavani String Quartet members, cellist Kyle Price and violist Eric Wong, Cleveland Orchestra violinist Isabel Trautwein, and Cleveland Orchestra clarinetist Robert Woolfrey.

The concert takes place at Dunham Tavern Museum. Tickets are $55; $45 for Heights Arts members; $15 for students.

heightsarts.org/music/concert-two-we-too-part-ii-four-first-ladies-in-music

Cleveland, OH 44103

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